Region specific resources and broken localization

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An app that supports English and French loses French accents because resource shrinking removes region-tagged files: an in-house UI library puts French strings under fr-rCA so the APK never includes them when the app’s Gradle resConfigs lists only en and fr. Two practical fixes: add fr-rCA to resConfigs so the shrinker keeps those files, or move the library’s region-specific strings into the default fr resources and release a rebuilt library.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:07Broken French localization
3. 3:34Region-specific resource issue
4. 6:20Build configuration impact
5. 7:46Fixing localization bug
6. 9:08Summary
7. 9:53Q&A

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